Evaluation Question 4

How did you use media technologies in the constructions and research, planning and evaluation stages?

In this blog post I will be evaluating the media technologies that I have used for the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages. Through my time studying A-Level media I have developed my use of technologies, which is evident by my blog. Looking back at my AS blog you will instantly notice the difference in appearance of my blog you will also see in my A2 blog I have correctly named my work and the layout and format of the blog is neater. I have used more media technologies compared to the amount I used in my AS project; in this post I will also be explaining how I also used certain technologies for the making of my products. 

Difference/Similarities

Blogger

As I have briefly explained my A2 blogger has improved from my AS blogger, for example in my AS blogger there were some problems with the pictures and videos, some of the images where blank and some were also not able to play. With my A2 blogger I have been able to fix these errors. In my AS Blog some text were also cutoff from the blog post due to some glitches I was also unable to change some of the text of the blog posts. Although A2 blogger I have encountered text issues I have come to solve if not most of the issues within my posts. Another problem I have with my AS blog was that I separated section of the same pieces of work into different posts, this made is harder to navigate through my posts as the reader would have to search for the next piece of work. With my A2 blog I have not done this and all the work have been named correctly, made it more interactive and has more depth making it easier to navigate and more interesting for the reader.

Advanced Editing

In IMovie I have also used much more advanced editing as my abstract narrative of my music video allowed me to incorporate interesting and creative editing. I have used cutaways, footage editing, and changing to opacity. As well as this I have also pre-edited some footages as IMovie only allows two layering of video, pre-editing enabled to add as many layers of footages making the video look more abstract and interesting. I have also be able to be more creative with my shot and filming different colours of light to create film burns and light leaks which I have used to overlay and filter my footages making the music video seem more vibrant.

New Software

I have also learned how to use new software such as Photoshop which I very much enjoyed doing and I have now made it a new hobby to edit and manipulate images to make artwork. Learning Photoshop is small amount of time tested my abilities in photo manipulation and how much I already know. In my AS I also managed to learn Garage Band a short amount of time however this year I feel I have learned more about Photoshop due to my commitment and interest in it. As well as this I have used several other online softwares such as Glogster and Powtoon, using these softwares enabled me to be more interactive with my blog posts allowing me to enjoy the work I produce and also allowing the audience to gain more interest in my work. Compared to my AS work where the majority of my work were writer posts I have included more Slideshares and Prezi for my A2 making my blog seem more lively and enabling me demonstrate my genuine interest in the subject.

Below I have produced a video presentation of the media technologies I have used:

Below is a video demonstration of how I came about doing the editing of my music video, digipak, and magazine advert: